Collective Impact Quotes

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

Social change comes through people.

And the whole is greater than the part.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.